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 Respectabie_ Intellectual Front: Follow ~-
nental Comnunist principies for mass Front: Toliostng (hotter

. than the JCP itself? follows these tenets), the ex-JCP i
organizers of BEHEIREN kept themselves in’ the background

‘and lined up 2 number of prominent Japanese: progressive.
intellectuais and ieftist cultured persons to front for
BERZIREN. The choice of ODA Hakoto, ex-Fulbrighter and =
|. popular young novelist, to be the chief front man - Chair~ ;

man - Was an extremely lucky stroke for BEHEIREN. ODA has —

‘taken to this grand-standing, front work iiko 2 duck to. rn
water. It has given him 2 chance to give unbridled vent to: ° ve
‘his own latent anti-American feelings, puffed hia up to the as
extent that ho has been dubbed “the emperor" by other BEHEIREN |
activists, and given him at long lagt en ideological mission - 000
- to pursue. YOSHIKAWA has performed magnificently in feeding =~.
. ODA's ego needs and in infusing and indoctrinating ODA se =...) -
_, that his words and actions take on sufficiently virulent © eT
“ anti~Anerican overtones. ODA has served another vital. —- an an
“ function for BENEIREN by recruiting a sizeable number of © oe
fellow intellectuals toe join the ranks of BEHEIREN activists.
(Attachment 1 is a listing of a number of those Japanese who = -
have cra.) identified as active BEREIREN | BUppor ters « or “sympaq teeth
“thizers. :

ok Organizational Development: $° p ‘its 2 Wan year’! history, ae:

SEERTREN has not appreciably changed its orgnnizational format, -.

. glthough it has moved its office three tines and modified its =.
mame even oftener. EEHEIREN is rot a "mass organization", bhe- "|
cause it has had no ‘sizeable popular backing to the present ,
time. Its hard core, secretariat organization is run by .

. YOSHIKAWA and his lieutenants. Its public icage, intellectual —

.2xont is led by ODA, and given body by a score of like-minded
*gntellectual friends of ODA and YOSHIKAWA, who form the loose .

_ bedy of BEHEIREN's activist leadership... Under thie BEDEIREN | ws,

leadership superstructure lies a paltry base of only severai —

“hundred BEHEIREN “rank-and-file"“i:supporters, mostly young =< -
Japanese students. Organizationally, EEHEITREN has no fermal -

: genbership system, so its base of supporters is fluid and not..

. precisely measur2zbie. However, the base support for BEHBIREN

‘hss definitely been on the upswing during 1967, and made such .

: notable strides during the past summer that JCP Headquarters.

_ officials finally felt constrained to note with concern that ~ |

' BEBEIREN was beginning to drain off a growing number of pro-~ .
gregsive youth who otherwise would have been absorbed into -

. the JCP's own youth movement. BEHEIREN leaders.have tried to. -

- help this growth along by setting up a youth section, calling

ait "Young BEHEIREN.” BEERIREN's imaginative actions and -

 publicity-conscious programs have been responsible for its — .

Fecent growth, aad this period of growth seems. to be now on

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the verge of really picking up speed.and momentum: Am a result
| o£ its role in the case of the four deserting sailors, BEREIREN ~:
has reaped bountiful publicity, has succeeded in touching a a
.delicate Japanese public nerve of sympathy and pacifism, open-..°:~
ing a floodgate of support for BEHEIREN from all over Japan. ...
When this case fades from the limelight, it is stall most = 9...
likely that a fair percentage of current Wave of_popular =
support for PEHEIREN will soli ermanent mass backing, *

(
‘Support its future activi CS,

&. Activities and Accomplishments: ” BEEETREN' has. engaged °
in a number of propaganda actions, and participated in ainter~ -
‘national anti-Vietnam War activities. It has tried to co ©.”
operate with certain front activities in Japan controlled BY.
‘the JCP, most notably the Japan Committee to Investigate War -
Crines in Vietnam activities, which culminated in the Tokyo =
Court of last Atgust, but has been soundly and rudely rebuffed —
by the JCP. In spite of this, BEHEIREN has churned along at.
-its own pace, with a continuing series of anti-Vietnam war. ”
_actions, most of. them related in some way to the American oe
pacifist movement. In this regard, BEHEIREN has succeeded in
cornering a virtual monopoly on Japanese contacts with the U. So
pacifist movements, and has effectually capitalized on this to
promote its own action program. The case of the four eee eae
sailors, while an. apparent lucky windfall for BEHEIREN, only
points up the fact that BEHSIREN, through past organizational |
work and promotional activities, was “johnny~on~the-spot", _-
ready and capable (unique in Japan in this regard) to take . ae
.the ball and run with it. BEREIREN ran all the way in this” 7
case and scored its most notable success since it was organized.:) |
- (Attachment 2 is a Listing of BEBBIREN's more notable activitios . -
since its founding. Attachment 3 is a partinl listing of |

American and other foreign persons known to have been in. a
contact with or cooperated with BEEEIREN.) = —

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Be The Case of ‘the Four Sailor Deserters and BERIREN.

i © How It Started: The consensus of all available overt | cies
" medin materinl, with no recorded dissent, indicates that the en
“four sailors voluntarily ieft their ship, went AWOL, and ended
‘up wallowing around Tokyo's hippie-land. - Precisely what: ‘personal —

- grievances prompted the four to embark on this mis-adventure is |
“mot yet known. But, up to this point, the four could fairly be”

_ categorized as misguided youngsters, gone astray in a foreign
_dand, and due to get slapped back in line with traditional . be
' Navy justice when they finally decided to stop the fun and ZO. me
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.2 How It Becere an Incident: But “instead of returning to
wets ship of their ovm volition or being apprehended by. the
hore Patrol, the four made contact with BEHEIREN leaders
. ieaiee press reports indicate that this was just a coincidence,
> ghat there was NO pre-planning by the four to contact BEWEIREN,
are no available overt nor ‘covert reports that tees
othorwise.: But, once the BEHEIREN people made contact, the
recognized the potential immediately and moved fast for the”
‘R411. (Attachment 4 ie a Yomiuri Newspaper clipping, 22 Kov- .
enber 1967, that is both a representative and comprehensive
zecount of this phase of the case. Even if this articic :
should contain sone siinor inaccuracies, the basic ine seGES .
factual and has not been Challenged elsewhere. ).

3.7 " BENEIREN Takes Over: When the four ‘made contact with
PEEETREN, it suddenly became an entirely different baligane.
BEHEIREN had everything needed to capitalise on this: veteran
activist leaders who are experienced enough to recognize the
‘windfall that had come their Way; an apparatus that could.
provide hiding places for the four; long standing. -l1aigon -
contacts with Soviet Embassy offict for use in pienning
exit fron Japan; solid conta reliabie Ancrican
pacifists with whom the bona fides of the four sailors could —
be checked; money and organization to capitalize on the .
propaganda potential (such as preparing a uovie film for the ©
*; initial BEHEIREN press conference announcing the deserti don, - ,
- ‘prepared more likely than not by BEHEIREN stalwart  EUED :

> Eedinosyke, an independent film producer) ¥ and English Speaking |
activists capable of sympathizing, encouraging, soothing, or

agitating the four young: sailors, ’ Bo , that there “would be 20 ~ ~
 Surning back. th fe . ve ;

po ‘4 ‘The BEHEIREN ¥ Apparatus tos At Work: ‘While: many of the a cee
sepnll pieces of this puzzie, which would put the whole case in
proper detailed chronological order and eliminate specuiztioa
‘on minor points, are still missing, enough is known now, -
through overt and covert sources, that the picture of BEHEIREN's
adept handling of this case shines through clearly. The follow-

-ing elements, all part of the BEEUIREN apparatus, | make 3p the oe
bulk of the picture: ee ao 8

< a) Ht de-out > When ENDIREN got. hold of the four ‘on =
about 26 October, they: had to he hiden out for the approximate

* two week period until their exit from Japan could be arranged.
This presented BEYEIREN no great logistical problem. A number _

of the BESEIREN activist leaders have homes well suited to © :

harboring fugitives. Tor example, BEHEINEN activist leader —-:

= bas 2 willa hidden away in Chigasaki, vhich

&%° Was used on the night of 12 September for a meeting of about

a. 20 top BEEEIREN leaders, end which would be BEERS | suits) ble 7

' for hiding the four deserters. Other private. 7
. donging to BEEEZIREN icaders and loyal a re ae
: Snrouguout both the Kanto and Kansai areas,

= * py BENEIREN/Soviet t Linison: PEDEIREN Secretary Genera
--yosmieawa has maintained periodic contact with Soviet Embassy.
officials for years. BEREZIREN Chairman ODA hes met Soviet
- Peace Committee officials in Moscow. The exact means of how
this Jiaison was accomplished in this case is: oases a feat)
‘(€rom @ covert phone tap on the Saviet Embassy's idnes -A full,
jtranseript is available of two phone calls made on 30 October,
first by >jbpise Vactoriato Chief Press Attache Nikolay ¥V.. | .°
' Yasilyevfeh, and second by YOSHIKAWA to First Secretary “| qh
ere “ imov, urgently requesting a private meeting =)
ater that ay to discuss “an extremely important, extrenely; /:
ate matter", without doubt the case of” the “four sailors.)

a oe : se) BEEEIREN/U. S. Pacifist Liaison: BEHEIREN contacted:
: Dartmouth’ University professor Ernest P. Young, who Zlew to.
. Japan om & November, apparently helped BEBEIREN leaders check.

' OR 12 November, (Attachment 5 isthe transintion of a Sanked.
' Shimbun article, dated 22 Noverher, reporting an intervier
7 with Young; giving his version of his role in this case. >

- 5. Esca to Hoscow: ‘The four deserters turned up in Se
- moRcOW On 20. Nevenber. The press has speculated widely and

‘unanimously that the four left Japan on the Soviet passenger
. Ship Baikal on 11 Novembor. Again, there is no dissenting = .
. opinion, overt nor covert. The oniy mystery concerning this —

’ mechanics of how the four boarded the Baikal and who assisted.
. in this maneauver. But with the sailing of the Baikal from)
Yokohama, BEHSIREN completed its most highly successful and. ~~

only did BEHDIREN smear the American Government's image in

. publicity that will swell the ranks of its supporters and be. ae
- dnvaluable in future activities, but BEHEIREN doubtlessly . -
even mace a profit, financially, on this low budget operation
\ « donations are still pouring into BEHZIREN Headquarters frou —

“ all over Japan to “neip’ and protect U.S “deserters”. so

_ out the bona fides of the deserters, and returned to the U.S. 0 |

final phase of the Japanese portion of this case concerns the *° .

beautifully executed activity in its 2 1/2 year history. Not ~~ ~
Japan, not only did BEHEIREN gain 2 vast amount of priceless 7 oa

j ‘sosatciw, Yuichi (comin Secrotary Genorat) - ~ -foruer sop
ot menber . Do

: on Waketo ote (eacinen ¢ chetrann) . - "popular novelist. -
: ‘RAIKO en - Akutagava prize winning novelist. - 2 |
KUBO Keinosuke - f11m producer and director,» : i
TSURDUT Shunsuke - ‘Doshisha University professor ns:

: $SURUNY Kazuko - sister of Shunsuke (thoir father is | the late e -
rar’ “philosopher, Yusuke) . _ ;

. FORDEALA Yozo = high school teacher. ~~

RUTO Ichiyo. ~ ‘ex-JOP (tried to travel to v. s. to ‘Sepresent _

/ -. “BEERIREN at October 21 demonstrations this. year. but was -

;.° UNTRARA Shun writer.

-/' denied a visa ta enter the a. 8.) oe
«. YASADA YAMADA Atsushi. ~ ex-icP, 7

| FUKUDA Yoshiyuki ~ playeriter.
“TQLINAGA Ichiro ~ cartoonist. : :
. FUKASAEU Witsusada: ~ professor: ;
AWAZU Kiyoshi - oa - graphic designer.
. TAKADO Kaname ~ Christian leader.
| YOSHIDA Eiju - ~ ‘£4lm director.

_ ‘HASETHOTO Hineo = Budghist priest
, HOTTA Yoshie - ~ novelist. oe ~
-- GOTO Hiroyuki | - scientist.

- KOWABARA Takeo < - professor at Kyoto | University. oe

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. SAKAMOTO Yoshikazu \, fostacant professor at Tokyo Univeretty:

- 22. BIDARA Rokuro = professor at ; Tokyo ‘University. oe
28. TIDA Mono. ~ writers. :

[0 25, TERRE Minako 2
26. ANAL Yunihako |”
“§ | : ASU Masana0 — ee
- 28. NATSUMOTO Ichiju
7 29. FUoKoTar. Setsuo — -
ee
| . ete? ANDO Jimbei, CHIBA HIDA Mido, EGAWA Take, USI Nittaten,
a HARTY Ichiro, HOSHINO Yasuseburo, ICHIS Saburo, IZBYAUA Juro,
- TSuapa Takeshi, KARAT Yoshiko, KASAI Selichi, EATAGIRI Yuzuru,
- | ‘HATO Shuichi, KAZAMA-Michitaro, MATSUURA Sexo, EIDOEDRO Hasso, :
Lo EATAEOII Satoshi, KOBAYASHI Shoichiro, KOKATSU Sakyo,
-KOBAYASEI Toni, KUNO Osanu (Shu) , KURODA Hidetoshi, HARUVAMA ,
“Masao, MIDORIKAVA Toru, MIZUSAWA Yana, KORITART Ichiro, oa: ie
| KUCHAKU Seikyo, NURANATSU Hiro, NISHIO SHIO Noboru, ROHURA Koichi,
ocosut Terus, OTSUKOTSU Yoshiko, SERIZAWA Tae, ‘SHIRAZ Shinpet
SHINMIRA Takeshi, SHISHIDO Hiroshi, SUGIURA Hitsuo, SUGIYAMA
Tatsunaru, SUZUERI Masabira, ‘TARSUCHI Yoshitono, WADA agehisa, . -
YAMADA Munenitsu, YAMADA Toshio, YAMAGUCHE Sosaku, YAMANISHT :
Eiichi, YASUDA Takeshi, YOSHINO Gonzaburo, YOSHIWARA Kotchixo,
_SEAMOTO Taro, MATSUMOTO Seicho, EI Rokusuke, IZUMI Taku, | a
| AWAYA Noriko, KATO Yoshiro, SHTROYAMA Saburo, TAKARASHI

peered

|... ,.. Taketono, ODAGIRI Hideo, ORUMA Minora, SANG Kenji, SUZUKI
0" Schahike, KUBATA Hanya, SHIRGHARA Selei, MARUYAMA Kunio,

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MA Sotsurei, NURO Kenji, KO.

I “ .
-Yoshikazu, SAITO Masahiko, etc.

“Although not recorded here, ‘many of the above persons
arg ex-ICP


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. along with special guest, U. S. pocisise Carl Oglesby (Chairman of =
rn ee .

7 HGRBIEN and featuring U.5. fous singer and. pacifist Joan Baez.»
Tt

1. Notes once-per-nonth demonstrations at a public park ire
Tokyo , consisting of antininerican Speeches 5 ad followed by street |

6

An ‘all ight Ty "teachein" with BERETTA. activist leaders, oa
, the Students for a Denoeratic Society.)

glk ful2 page advertisement in the New 3 york Tines (16 Noveaber .
1965). ‘followed by another full page ad in the Washington Fost :
G april. 1867) 5 appealing to Americans: to stop. the wor in Vietnan. | oa

: 7 7 ‘weet in Conference of ‘two Nations for Peace in Vietnam, "
held in Tokyo in August 1966, and attended by EEHEIREN activists and -

..geven U.S. prcifist leaders {including Dave Dellinger), and observers ,
from » Francs» Hnglend, Canada, the USER, Pakistan, and Mongolia. _ oS

te a A RSS meeting din Tokyo in October 1sce, ‘guest ‘speakers of
“which were French pacitists » Jean-Paul Sartre and. Simone de Beauvoir. |

6. ‘Nationwide tours of Japan ‘for lectures ‘and peace rallies for

: such anti-Vietnan war pacifists as Professor Howard Zinn and the late

of the United States, Claude ¢ Bourget of | France, and Thich

“Nhat Eanh of South Vietnam, -- : ee

9, A mass meeting in Tokyo an January ‘y967, sponsored by

8. -k continuing progran ‘of direct distribution of panphicts to

: U.5. troops stationed in Japan, and those coning to 9 Japan on Warships s
. end for rest or hospitalization fron Viotnaz, Lk uke Ta

9. Participation by two BEHEIREN activist leaders s (Kyoto. . : _

‘ University professor KUVABARA Takeo and Internationnl House staffer

TSURUEI Yoshikyuki, taking advantage of a trip to the U.5S..to attend -

> @ Hon-=political dapan-fmerica Congress on Cultural Probiessy in.
. anti-Vietnam war Bheech rallies and CeqMStrations At Dartnouth —

University in early May 1967, fellowed by an unsuccessful attempt ho
fo invite Cassius Clay to visit Japan on ‘behalf of BEBEIREN. oF

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: speech tour on behalt of PENSIREN, “Soviet: poet Yevgent Yevtushenko,”
* an effort that has not yet reached fruition but S s' ner’ ABB eS

7 ‘an “participation in the: Stockhola July 1967 “Gorld Conzerénce *
“on Vietaam,” by sending two sn activist leaders as delegates.

a 12. ° Cooperation: yqith the’ v.8. Quakers,’ pacifists » and Parle oO
Reynolds in sending the yacht “Phoeniz" with medical aid, first to

: Haiphong, then on a second trip in the Fall of 1887, secking but —

' failing to find landfatL to deliver medical nid to either North or

. South Vietnam. ; oS _ He

13.) | ’ Attempted, but failed. ‘due to inability to , obtain Us. visa,

“to send a HEHEIREN activist leader (RUTO ichiyo) to the U.5. ta
7 participate in the 21 ‘October 1967 enti- fietnarm tnuan War denoastrations. _

ae 14: : ‘Currently carrying out: a ‘fund. raising canpaign- to send aRr-.
‘aid ship to.North Vietnam. iIn this, and other activities, BEHEIREN —
leaders arc maintaining ever closer liaiscn contact with their ae
counterparts abroad, such as the Pre “Conite® Vietnan Hationai. ok
in an effort to generate public support for this aid ship
‘ yaising cempaign, BEXEIREN succeeded in issuing a public appeal, ;
/ under the endorsing signatures of Tokyo Governor MiNOSE Ryokichi and ~
Yokohama Nayor en Tenioy as worl as 3 the asual datellectuals | .
- supporting BEMETRE -

: 15. ‘In October 1967, 1 BERRIEN solicited 1 apploval to hold auti-
Vietzaa War demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,
' expecting to be denied and then intending to make this denial a court
‘test case. Instead, SEHEIREN was given this’ permission, und conducted
» two crderly and voli-publicized denonstrations in front of the American
: EBabassy, garnering a larger public turn out of participants than in
any / Previous: ‘SEHBIREN~sponsored Genonstration. oo

“16. Assisted and abetted the defection to. the USSR of £ four” _

: Amortean sailors from the U.S. Navy carrier intrepid. Folioving this.

- guccess, BENEIREN's most effective activity to date, HEHEIREN leaders
are Organizing a permanent “underground railwoy" of Japanese intell-~ _ .

ectuals vho will volunteer their hozes as possible “way stops" for  ~——

te future U.S. = military deserters that BEHEIBEN | now Bopes. to ek
n HOS oe » ee

en

” Por other details, Bee se yovsutelligence 2 reporting:
. CES-11547, 31 Hay 196

RIT+LZO46, 14 October 1966
EITLI2GSO, 10 May 1967. ©
ETH-12951, 5 July 1967".

- BST+-1LIGS1, & September 1987 .

no EST. 13154, 27 September 1967.
| ee sigan: 22 November 1967 |.
9+ GS-o780, 11 July 1967.

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pa Partial Listing of of Anertean and Other Foreign

-. Persons Enown to Have Been in Contact with £h or

a, Sooperated with with BELEIRE

“ Anericens. - coe . jd, ne
“he: Staughton Lynd (ez-¥ale professor).
_ Rorman Uailer (novelist): —

. OO
Dave Dellinger (Editor of Liberation)
.° Boward Zinn @oston u. professor).

. Donald Keyes ‘(National Comittee for a . Bene
ot Zuclear Policy

* David UcReynolds (Chairman, War Resistors! mo eke

iene tT League) |

- “AS 3. e Kuste (now deceased) :

9, Willdam Davidson —

/ 10.) Bradford Lyttle
“LL. Charlotte Thurber.

ee ‘Giiss) Quontin Bassett G@tadents for. a Denocratic .
or» Soe dety) :

"Murray ‘Levin | oston v. - professor),
“Robert Ockene ‘Meter Mets

. Gar | Oglesby 7 (Contre Students | for a | Donoeratic C.
me a Society aa :

- 16. = Barbara Bening Gasociate editor of : Liberation)
- re: Joan Baez folk singer) —

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var ae Ira Morris. “(aris expatriate)

Otto Noisan ‘(honetic, Kew York City pesco actaviet) |

a. Barbara and Earle Reynolds “(divorced but separately .
us TAPS oe -, ective Lone tine xesidents -
nhs in Japan) — :

| WAdLian Be ‘Christensen ‘Can’ ‘Anericon pacifist arister, se
. _ who gave BEREIREN its first...
“\. experience in the ssummer of >.

' 1866 in exploiting for pro- - . >
’ paganda in Japan, and then in’
_ atranging the onward Journey
“of an Amorican who wanted to"
defect to the USSR)

‘Brian Vaetoria ‘(head-shaved pacifist ‘and "converted"
‘ , Buddhist priest, known to be in ...
' yegular contact with the Soviet :
‘ee Eubasey in Tokyo) _ Sets

ur. winiowy , Gan, phonetic, tehiet of the quater
— _ Beace Action movenent in the v. s.)~ -

ae unidentigied “anor dcan of Ja panese descen t, teem 2. ~
ae Bawaii, who is currently a student at Waseda ‘taiveresty)
at _ \ |

Xgeaku 1 Fama guchi' (reportediy born ‘in U.s., ; " prosent”

: citizenship status unclear) Gon orty
oe ‘ ‘was & professor at Honoyama University |

ifm Osaka, but has been teachin, &t the

. Waniversity of California in Berkeley -
. for sone tame) a 7

laude Bourdet, Fence (ezengh comitten to Suopart
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Mrs. Erdenebat Ojon, MongoLia ee
. Konstantin Shugnov, USSR

7 Francis Marcel abn, | France (Comite Vietnam
8 nr ae arr so National) | :

10. "Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Benuvoir, , ‘France .
“Ue ‘Thich Nhat" ‘Hanh, South Vietnam ©

2 This 4s not, by any / moans, a . complete Liating : “nor byob

.> does it necessarily list BEREIREN's mast inportant --

‘-: getivist contacts abroad. But this list is re~--
 presentative in showing the breadth of BEHEIREN

- jieison abroad, particularly with the Auerican .
“new left"

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Ee early ali ee
d LOUIE i LOGEC GH +
The. four deserters ‘from: the US aircraft cartier Inteepid ‘who made a dramatic tele.
ision appearance Manday in Moscow are believed’ to have ‘left Japan irregularly
. by the. Soviot liner. Baikal Which lets Yokohama on November 11 for the. Far. East
‘Soviet port of ‘Nakhodka,?:- 050°: Soh | a Not Worried,
“ Sources in the. Metropolitan ( test. \ “il tem nen, he. first met the deser-!.
.Police Department. said “Tues. | at. : once, /jters,- they: were practlealiv:
day - that Mhe four ‘Americans P : penniless but appeared - quite}

could have boarded the ship by hi | Uaencerned, Naito said, * don
'@ “special -gangway for Soviet | serters first | wanted -- to" live rentign ange ved ah mpi” ee
Government officials, | peacefully’ in- Japan ‘and. asked | ea a chee, “Ja anes fi 4
b watchmen wet jhe" Behelren ito. nd them: jobs, aye drink such as udon:
, Another gangway) for|in. which they’ could  ulllize (noodles) ‘ond shochu. ° :
a «Ordinary passengers when +222 | their English proficiency... ‘ He said the four Am {oan 2
"4 listed. passengers. + including}. The Beheiren. ‘wanted - to‘ live in Ja ae a 2
“eight. Americans, boarded the} they could - not ‘in’ ‘I “possible “i Tok 0. pan, and
‘Mner ‘before: it: departed Yoko-|-without _ being ¢ 2 by. t Naito and "hls ph nd. ¥:
_ hama’at/11.50 am, November 11 Japariese : police. ad {is frieng. Yama

+, The": watchmen *;told police | authorit! “or"later, ‘Yo. Cecided to ask the help of thei
: ‘sald,

, a Eh n ey Behelren ‘and delivered the!
mmit ‘that’ they didnot see any per. t . Rey
am. \eommit . ee AS cei . . our men tow the Beheiren!
tee’ (Beheiren), tells pfess gon Aili hearin Raid Be pe oot L Lived “Like Hippies! around: November 26. fre i
conference Tuesday {hat the < tireagh the ordinary. ingwart | Hicomt Naito, "20, "a “painter: Naito said ‘he ‘believed * that’
four deserters-of theiUS war." : that 17 om | 9f TOkYO, - wld~ ‘The Yomiurijall the fad Aimerleans were.
; ers. 7) we, It Was ‘learned. that 17: offi. , rime p 2 .
ship Intrepid hoped “td stay clas ef the Soviet Embassy and | Shimbun ° -that - he *- and -..his|‘not communists and that . they
Pp pid .bop we i : : ‘ By friend, .Sansei -Yamao, a hippie} had no interest in Communist
in’ Japan: put ‘the;. Behelren: trade mission’ in Tokyo - and poet: and ; member’. of the ideology." . a
, could not help: them ‘toto 56. ' ‘Bate Of wialtors boarded ‘the Behelren, atted as go-betweens|. He said the four’ must: hav
oe, —Hatttiineniemen< Baikal through ‘the. special{ soo the. deserters. and... the|decided to go to some”ne
. . . ane sR /Behelren, tt ' fcountry via the -Sovie!
ie e Police sources sald that - Naito. said’ he met ‘two ‘of{after they learned tha
eee duite possible” that the} 2. .four _ deserters—-Airman| could: not. live in- Japan. =f
Soviet authorities In Tokyo ar| jie ley,19, and Airman|~..A spokesman. for, the Justice:
ranged ‘the deserters’ exit... - | aie ander 19—at .a -hip-/ Ministry “ said’ ‘Tuesday that
fit... +" Beheiren Pledge ' pie angout. in. Shinjuku| there , Was. nothing’ legally,
Yuichi Yoshikaw retary:|@Tound October 20... °;:°. ‘|wrong’in the ‘four Americans
eneral of ‘the Japan PeaceFor| He said. both.- Américans| leaving Japan ‘because the ad-
Miethom oe mites (B neh. , Wore leather jackets and other'ministrative ‘agreement ‘in the
told BS. Confer et | informal ‘clothing which they'Japan-US Security ‘Treaty gua.
day that ihe commines 20S | sald they borreted eich they Japan US military personnel};
ey dis we h nit ene Japanese hippie friends hang-.the right to come, to Stay in, |
aenerie ee new the four ing around: the Shinjuku: area. Or leave Japan," . “fo
Americans left because’ “it” had ‘Bailey and‘Lindner and the’, He said he understood that,
Promised. not to do so.’ other ‘two—Airman .M,.-the four Americans were :tech-!
He nefther affirmed hor dent. Barilla, 20,-:and “Air ically still enlisted .US mill-{]
ed the report ‘that ‘the. Amer. ‘Prentice Craig. W." Anderson tary personnel, © |. a
fcans left Japan by the Baikal | 39 went -= ‘around. ..in ~' pai: Furthermore, | if: their’ exit]
m_ November .13.'." iow | Naito: said. ee yee took place. on’ November ‘11, it}
1. It was’ the. Behetren’ wnict |! Nalto’ said--he jet alley and Was before: 1c US authorities
| Lindner ‘stay ‘overnight -at his ™ade. an official request to the
house in Hayamiyacho, Neri- Japanese Police fo search for
. from vOctober: 34 to them, he added, Ss
, iieatald TEEEN ens @- also said there. were’ no
‘Japanese laws allowing charges
' Ito: be . preferred against the
iBehelren officials and-other Ja-
* ipanese people who: “protected”
 jthe Americans “in ‘Japan and
helped their “departure to the
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*~ Fpebably Escaped from Japan on, the 12th or the 13th A ak
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: (ew York, " November’ 20, " Correspondent Tadashi. ONODERA): * ‘Professor
- " Ernest Pi YOUNG of Dartmouth College in the U.S., -consented to an “interview -
with. this reporter on the question of the four American seamen who deserted -
:ifrom the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid. ‘At the interview held on the 19th,
“£-Professor ‘YOUNG clarified that the.:Peace for’ Vietnam Association’ ‘(Beheiren, :
with Makoto ODA acting as its representative) contacted an anti-war organiza-
“tion in the U.S., and at this, Professor YOUNG hurriedly visited Tokyo, and .
meeting ‘tha four seamen in a room.in an apartment house in Tekyo on the Sth
. fand 10th; ctried to persuade -them .to return. ;in regard . to ‘the ‘pres ent ‘where-
‘Trabouts- ‘of these four seamen, he made the ‘noteworthy, statement’ ‘that “those
_¢’four wera still in Japan, up-until the night. of the ith, when, = jeft, Japan,
JE ‘but. ‘they | are probably no: Longer ; in Japan now," visa cong! net i
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professor: Beheiren ‘contacted ‘David a DERRINGER, a saclfist activist®
in the U.S.., asking him to "send someone to Japan to hear the stories of
the four seamen and announce them in the U.S." I have been in Japan twice,
and I also once served as special. assistant. to Ambassador REISCHAUER. |
.. During that’ time, I became friends with Beheiren representative’ Opa’ and 5
other intellectuals in Japan. It was for these reasons that I was given.
% ¢ this: assignment...:. I personally have ever. Partie sparee, actively in the
‘ oy anti-Vietnam war ‘movement, so far...”
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at . When: did you arrive ia, apa, and. ‘where Sid , You, mee’ the, ;
seamen? oe Boas oe oo oe
se. * oe We
Professor :::
oe Zeon the 9th and the. 10th... ;
Re 3 in Tokyo, but I ‘cannot say. at. this time where that apartment, hoyse was and
erwho owned it... However, on both days, I talked fully with. these. four seamen, . °
ve for more than. three hours. on each occasion (according to an investigation
| made by the public security authorities, Professor YOUNG. ‘arpived in, Japan .
:toward the evening of the 8th, and stayed at Hotel Tanakanwa’ in Shiba,
5 Minato-ku, until ‘the: morning ¢ oF. ‘the. 2 ATED) «.., : .

py “professor: . : The desertion was. = completely the decision. of ‘these four
ypersons. . It seems that the four ‘seamen: decided not to return. to the sship, ~
oxawhen the Intrepid : entered. Yokosuka, Port on October, 17; and they | were per—
‘ay mitted to go ashore for rest for one week. . My impression.on meeting these’
*33,four seamen was that they were definitely not ‘deserting for the purpose of a
. . ¢hselfsadvertisement or that they. were giving false reasons. I am ,convinced Son
en that they deserted really. out of doubt. about, the Nietnan Wareln oe

?

oo -- What were the movenentis of. ‘the, four, after they deserted? ”

" Professor: = On the “night of ‘the 23rd, two ‘days before the ‘intregia
‘was‘die to.sail, the four went to Shinjuku, and told the people whom they |
met at & bar they happened to vinit, that 'we are fed up with war." The

_ Japanese who heard them sympathized “with ‘them,: and. at'one time, the. four
lived with some hippies (according ‘to this paper's investigations, they.
include Mr, K., a student of Tokyo University's Liberal Arts Department,»
and vanguard artist Ae who ‘gather 8 at ‘Pugetsuio 4 in a Shinjuku. ). Finaloy, a


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they were e taken to 5 Bebeiven by a student ‘yho- spoke English (according - to oe a oo
‘this paper's investigation, this was Nr, S,, a Waseda University student). 00.

‘After shat, _they ‘were hidden by Beheiven. I cannot say where they were
hidden. » soa vhs wr ope : re ne

wie were: tay earl gene ec semen

“Progessor:" ty purpose. in visiting ‘Japan + was to "dissuade sche; four. - cot
I explained to. them what the results of their desertion would be. I sn .
won told them that they would never again be permitted to stand on American soil;

ap ‘their fatherland... At. ‘the time I met--them,--it was-still. at..a:stage where
whe they. would only receive ‘ight punishment, if “they reported back immediately, .:
ny Saying that. they “had migsed their ship , Howaver,:: their. determination was":

Siva, ‘and my persuasion had -no effects. sep “ So ite 3
hoon “ Lert - A. toe os ee Pinan _ °:

we The ‘fous “seamen! 8 ‘desertion. was: ‘announced. ‘in. ‘the fort of a- press. - a .
interview given by Beheiren,: - .Were there. no facts: of their haying. b heen - 5
forced to desert, during | ‘that, period? ;

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Professor: L ascertained “that: point; “too.” “However, “they fivaiy ¢ denied
‘any fact of their having. been forced, saying that they had voluntarily ce ty
consulted Beheiren as to whether they should publicly. announce the > Ee oa ae
‘intention to desert, and | if 50, in what form this should be made.” ve a

ated Where are the four seanen, now, and where are they planning ‘to go?

7 “Professor: I an certain that the four ’of “them "were ‘still in Japan,* .
‘up ‘until the lith, the day I left for home, However, they already Imew .. ,
‘fully well that it was not possible for them to ebtain asylum in Japan... aa
They even said that “we will probably have to go to some third nation, =~
which is neutral." (The public security authorities judge that the four .
seamen left Japan immediately after Mr. YOUNG's persuasion, and consider that
they, probably were smuggled out of Japan after -the l0th,.and before the:
. ys evening of ‘the 13th, when - .Beheiren. announced ‘their désertion: -atua press -:
7 - conference, . However, Mr, YOUNG says that the. four seamen were in ‘Japan up -

until the night of the llth, . Therefore, the, possibility is strong that they |
were’ smuggled out of F vapan by. ship, ‘between ‘the “night . of : the. iith and the ae

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: professor: when ‘the Films \ were. e ‘publicly shown, theie was ‘big excitement,” :
with rows and rows of television and ‘press cameramen, I thought I would be | a i
exposed to persistent questioning by the FBI and the CIA, after I returned © yg
-home, but. so, far, I have only been, questioned’ once .by' the. Wavy.'s. Intelligence oad
‘ _, Section, about the circumstances. ;.It, seems that; ‘American euthorities con=". +” -
cerned fo. not want to make - too dig, a fuss cover, the matter, cn a

“= What, ‘ao the parents ‘think of. his’ “action | ‘taken by, theix, sons? ,
Srosbcscee , ‘A certain ‘feleviewon' station ‘asked. “the "nother: of 5 one of “ ur
: the four men about her son's. life..,. This mother was completely: perplexed,
‘saying: "My son-is a. most. average American, youth, :- ‘His :school records

. Were quite. 0 ordinary. and he. ‘note, uporta AP ucts! ‘Aike: “any. other student.’ ae


